VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 436 533
Rank change year-on-year -98 +97 +141
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 90 89 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.31% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 1.00% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 66 42
10th Percentile £462 £503 £319
25th Percentile £497 £525 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £612 £650 £556
90th Percentile £659 £688 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -8.55% +17.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £61.90 - -
25th Percentile £67.11 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £89.19 - -
90th Percentile £94.93 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,912 8,913 13,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 30.67% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,822 5,673 8,401
10th Percentile £343 £294 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 485 1,006
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.51 £13.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £24.18 £17.73
Median hourly rate £36.00 £42.50 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +12.35% -27.44%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.50 £61.90
90th Percentile £84.90 £80.84 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -23.47%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -137 64 £553 -6.75% 24
Work from Home -11 43 £596 +5.96% 10
UK excluding London -136 42 £535 -8.55% 17
London -39 19 £610 -2.40% 7
North of England -61 14 £460 -0.54% 7
North West -30 12 £460 +5.14% 7
South West -61 11 £589 +2.39% 3
South East -62 10 £599 -4.67% 4
Midlands -75 4 £475 -32.14% 3
West Midlands -58 3 £450 -35.71% 2
East of England -31 2 £507 -6.11%
Yorkshire -56 2 £456 -13.10%
Scotland - 2 £463 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.56%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.00%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) AWS
3 5 (5.56%) Nutanix
4 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.22%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.67%) VSAN
2 11 (12.22%) Firewall
3 9 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (6.67%) DHCP
4 6 (6.67%) DNS
4 6 (6.67%) SAN
5 4 (4.44%) Network Security
6 3 (3.33%) NAS
6 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.33%) VPN
7 2 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.22%) IPFIX
7 2 (2.22%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.11%) DMVPN
8 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.11%) PCoIP
8 1 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.11%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 5 (5.56%) Git
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 30 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Finance
6 2 (2.22%) Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Electronics
6 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Marketing
6 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.11%) Advertising
7 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (33.33%) Consultant
2 29 (32.22%) VMware Consultant
3 20 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
6 8 (8.89%) Hyper-V Consultant
6 8 (8.89%) PowerShell Consultant
6 8 (8.89%) PowerShell Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Principal Consultant
6 8 (8.89%) Senior
6 8 (8.89%) Wintel Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) VMware Specialist
8 6 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Lead
11 3 (3.33%) Python Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) REST
2 2 (2.22%) Flash
3 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Replication
2 10 (11.11%) Clustering
3 8 (8.89%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.56%) PKI
5 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.22%) NVMe
6 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.22%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.22%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.56%) Windows
2 17 (18.89%) Windows Server
3 12 (13.33%) Linux
4 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.33%) VMS
6 2 (2.22%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.89%) Disaster Recovery
1 17 (18.89%) Network Virtualisation
2 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (14.44%) Migration
2 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
3 12 (13.33%) High Availability
4 10 (11.11%) Agile
5 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (7.78%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (7.78%) System Testing
6 6 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (6.67%) ITIL
6 6 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (6.67%) Service Management
7 5 (5.56%) Change Management
7 5 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 5 (5.56%) SIEM
7 5 (5.56%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 64 (71.11%) PowerShell
2 58 (64.44%) Python
3 38 (42.22%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.22%) Bash
5 2 (2.22%) Perl
5 2 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 53 (58.89%) SC Cleared
3 27 (30.00%) VCAP
4 14 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (14.44%) MCSE
6 12 (13.33%) MCSA
7 8 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (6.67%) CCNP
8 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
8 6 (6.67%) OCA
8 6 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (4.44%) RHCA
10 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
10 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.33%) CCNA
10 3 (3.33%) Degree
10 3 (3.33%) RHCE
11 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.22%) VCDX
11 2 (2.22%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (51.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 26 (28.89%) vSphere
4 23 (25.56%) VMware NSX
5 15 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 15 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
7 5 (5.56%) Docker
8 2 (2.22%) KVM
9 1 (1.11%) Firmware
9 1 (1.11%) SRDF
9 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (47.78%) vRealize
2 29 (32.22%) Ansible
3 25 (27.78%) vCenter Server
4 10 (11.11%) PowerCLI
4 10 (11.11%) Terraform
5 9 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.56%) vMotion
7 3 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.33%) Puppet
8 2 (2.22%) Grafana
8 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.11%) Podman
9 1 (1.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 90 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (14.44%) Cisco
4 4 (4.44%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.44%) NetApp
4 4 (4.44%) Veeam
5 3 (3.33%) Broadcom
5 3 (3.33%) Dell
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.22%) Brocade
6 2 (2.22%) Commvault
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) 3PAR
7 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.11%) Citrix
7 1 (1.11%) EMC
7 1 (1.11%) F5
7 1 (1.11%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.11%) Remedy